CENTRO DE EXTENSIÓN DE LA PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, SAN DIEGO (CL)
International Visual Arts show with artists coming from Chile, Italy, United Kingdom, Greece and Lebanon.
• The show “Street Hacker 2” will run form the 2nd to the 30th of May at the Galería de Arte Centro de Extensión UC, Santiago de Chile.
• The show is part of the international project “Platform Translation”.
“Street Hacker 2” is the second part of Natalia Arcos’ curatorial proposal which focuses on the idea of generating a translation from computer concepts, related to the intervention of systems (as ‘troyans’, ‘hacker’, and ‘free software’), to the field of action of the visual arts. This translation is a theoretical exercise that pursues to connect the dynamics of Internet hacking to the aesthetic creation.
The key idea is the imaginary re-appropriation of the street and the bunkers as an active alternative facing the withdrawn that the society suffers when it is threatened by the economical impositions of the global capital.
The capacity of material recuperation, connected to the survival in a territory, constitutes an adequate mode of sustaining an approach that defends other ways of exercising citizenship. In this way, the concept of translation (which axes the whole project of Platform Translation) comes out here in the capacity of constant reinvention, which is, at the same time, related to the dynamics of the free software (open coding programs that are improved by the users).
In sum, in Street Hacker 2, translation works on two levels: on the one hand, computer concepts are translated and illuminate the visual creation, and on the other, the artworks will embrace the capacities of change, mutation, and constant development.
Curator: Natalia Arcos Salvo
Guest Curators: Zoi Pappa (Greece), Barbara D’Ambrosio & Silvano Manganaro (Italy)
Participants Artists: Marwa Arsanios ( Lebanon ), Elena Bellantoni ( Italy ), Christian Costa (Italy), Nury González (Chile), Carolina Hoehmann (Chile), Sachiyo Nishimura (Chile), Zoi Pappa (Greece), Soledad Pinto (Chile), Tom Robinson (UK), Francisca Sánchez (Chile), Mihalis Theodosiadis (Greece)
